Recent decades have seen an upsurge of research with and about young children, their families and communities. The Handbook of Early Childhood Research will provide a landmark overview of the field of early childhood research and will set an agenda for early childhood research into the future. It includes 31 chapters provided by internationally recognized experts in early childhood research. The team of international contributors apply their expertise to conceptual and methodological issues in research and to relevant fields of practice and policy. The Handbook recognizes the main contexts of early childhood research: home and family contexts; out-of-home contexts such as services for young children and their families; and broader societal contexts of that evoke risk for young children.

The Handbook includes sections on:

the field of early childhood research and its key contributions

new theories and theoretical approaches in early childhood research

collecting and analysing data

applications of early childhood research

This Handbook will become the valuable reference text for students, practitioners and researchers from across the social sciences and beyond who are engaged in research with young children.

Ann Farrell, Sharon Lynn Kagan and E. Kay M. Tisdall

Chapter 1: Early Childhood Research: An Expanding Field

PART I: SITUATING EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH

Marisa Morin, Jennifer Glickman and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Chapter 2: Parenting and the Home Environment

Carmen Dalli and E. Jayne White

Chapter 3: Group-Based Early Childhood Education and Care for Under-2-Year-Olds

Bronwen Cohen and Marta Korintus

Chapter 4: Young Children in their Local Communities

PART II: THEORIZING EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH

E. Kay M. Tisdall

Chapter 5: Participation, Rights and ‘Participatory’ Methods

Peter Moss

Chapter 6: Where am I? Position and Perspective in Researching Early Childhood Education

Katrien De Graeve

Chapter 7: Theorizing Identities in Early Childhood

Lesley Anne Gallacher

Chapter 8: Theorizing Young Children’s Spaces

Mary E. Young

Chapter 9: Converting the Science of Early Human Development into Action

Michael Anderson and Corinne Reid

Chapter 10: Theoretical Insights from Neuroscience in Early Childhood Research

Ann Farrell

Sharon L Kagan

E. Kay M. Tisdall

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